Students Launch Canada’s First ‘Textbook Exchange Through Social Networking’ Web Site

Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) August 22, 2005

A group of enterprising university students has launched ‘BooksForSchool.ca’: Canada’s first free textbook exchange web site, based on a social networking concept, which links students within similar schools and courses. BooksForSchool.ca helps reduce the costs of post-secondary textbooks by creating an online community of buyers and sellers.

Motivated by concern over the high cost of education, rising tuitions, living expenses and onerous textbook fees, student developers were anxious to find creative ways to manage the accumulating student debt load. As a result of the hard work put into the development of BooksForSchool.ca, students now have a convenient system to save money and time with the free online textbook exchange service.

An online textbook exchange service is a web site that facilities the direct exchange of post-secondary textbooks between students. Members may buy, sell or exchange their new and used textbooks without surcharges.

"Textbook fees continue to rise and schools continue to devalue buyback offers on used textbooks," said Lawson Hennick, press coordinator of the BooksForSchool.ca web site. "BooksForSchool.ca allows students to determine the price of textbooks without the added expense of the middleman."

BooksForSchool.ca matches students with others across Canada who have the textbooks they need. Web site tools automatically inform students by email when a required textbook becomes available. BooksForSchool.ca is completely free to buy, sell or trade textbooks so students can retain much more of their initial investment when selling their textbooks online.

"Since BooksForSchool.ca is a national initiative, books which may be outdated in one province may retain full value in another province," explains student web developer Paul Levine. "We are very excited to share this cost saving opportunity to students across the country.”

Founded in 2003, BooksForSchool.ca pioneered the country wide online textbook exchange service in Canada. In 2005, BooksForSchool.ca combined textbook swapping with social networking, enabling students to decrease their expenses and make it easier to buy and sell new and used textbooks.

BooksForSchool.ca is a completely free service for university and college students. The BooksForSchool.ca web site can be accessed by visiting: http://www.booksforschool.ca.

Contact/Interview Requests:

Mike Levine

press@booksforschool.ca

416-414-6810

1054 Centre St. Suite #262

Thornhill Ontario, L4J 8E5

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Best University Web Site of 2006 to be Named by Web Marketing Association

Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 12, 2006

The Web Marketing Association announces the call for entries for its 10th annual international WebAward Competition at http://www.2006webaward.org. The WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks based on the seven criteria of a successful Web site.

Universities represents an important category in the WebAward competition, and the Web Marketing Association will again be honoring the Best University Web site of 2006. The deadline for entry is May 31, 2006.

Colleges and universities very competitive when it comes to Web development and they can benefit from the independent evaluation of their online efforts that the award judges provide, said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. University Web development sits in between a generally conservative fiscally-minded administration and an extremely Web-savvy student body. The best university Web sites are able to overcome this gap and provide a wide range of information and tools, such as online registration, to their students and perhaps even more importantly their perspective students

Each year the Web Marketing Association names the Best University Website based on the scores submitted by the competition judges. Recent winners of the Best University Web site WebAwards include:

2005 San Diego State University Timeline - http://www.sdsumonth.com/timeline/index.html


2004 School of Visual Arts Website http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/


2003 Chestnut Hill College Admissions Site - http://www.chc.edu/

A complete list of past winners and the entry form for companies who wish to compete for 2006 honors can be found at http://university.webaward.org.

Web sites are judged on seven criteria including design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copy writing and ease of use and receive a numeric score. Each WebAward entry is judged against other entries in its industry category and then against an overall standard of excellence. Entrants also benefit from receiving valuable feedback from the WebAwards professional judging panel on their Web site development efforts.

Using the quantifiable data collected from 9,748 Web site evaluations over the past decade, the WebAwards has defined and recognized industry-specific benchmarks for successful Web sites in each of the seven judging criteria and released an Internet Standards Assessment Report to detail the findings of the study.

Participants in the 2006 WebAwards university category will receive their scores in each of the seven criteria compared to the average of the entire industry. That type of feedback and benchmarking alone in worth the price of admission, said Rice.

A copy of the Internet Standards Assessment Report, including details regarding colleges and universities through 2005, is available at http://www.webawards2006.org.

Judging for the 2006 WebAwards will take place in June through August, with winners announced in September. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet marketing professionals who have direct experience designing and managing Web sites with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web site development and technology. Mark Kingdon, CEO of Organic, Inc. (http://www.organic.com) has been selected to lead the judging panel this year. Past judges have included top executives from leading organizations such as Ogilvy Interactive, Saatchi & Saatchi, Blattner Brunner, Comedy Central, Sun Microsystems, Refinery, Euro RSCG, EPB Interactive, New York Post Interactive, The Cincinnati Enquirer, J. Walter Thompson, Xerox, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Modem Media, and Answerthink just to name a few.

The 2006 WebAward Competition current sponsors include Burst Media (http://www.burstmedia.com), SimpleFeed (http://www.simplefeed.com), Register.com (http://www.register.com), NewsUSA (http://www.newsusa.com), AdTools Inc(http://www.adtoolsinc.com), Small Army (http://www.smallarmy.net), Perseus Development Corp (http://www.perseus.com) and PRWeb (http://www.prweb.com). Media Sponsors include Website Services Magazine (http://www.websiteservices.com), AdRants (http://www.adrants), MarketingVox (http://www.marketingvox.com), MediaPost (http://www.wediapost.com), eComXpo (http://www.ecomxpo.com), Ad:Tech (http://www.ad-tech.com) and Macworld (http://www.macworldexpo.com). The Web Marketing Association thanks all of its sponsors for helping to make this annual competition possible.

About the WebAwards

The 10th annual international WebAwards competition sets the standard of excellence in 96 industry categories by evaluating Web sites and defining benchmarks based on the seven essential criteria of successful Web site development. The goal of the Web Marketing Association, sponsor of the WebAwards, is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective Web sites on the Internet today. Entrants benefit from a Web site assessment by a professional judging panel and the marketing opportunities presented to an award-winning Web site. For more information, visit http://www.webawards2006.org.

For more information contact:

William Rice

President, Web Marketing Association, Inc.

860-558-5423

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GetGreenTurf.com Professional Turf Community Web Site Launches

Loveland, CO (PRWEB) November 04, 2011

GetGreenTurf.com, a new professional turf community Web site launched today, offering turf professionals from both the landscape and golf markets a completely customizable community to learn and share green industry best practices.

GetGreenTurf.com is a brand-new and unique on-line resource that offers lawn care operators and other landscape professionals the opportunity to find out what their industry peers are doing, and how theyre meeting and overcoming the same challenges, said Marty Grunder, President of Grunder Landscaping Inc., The approach behind GetGreenTurf.com is unique, and I strongly believe in the value of the online community the Web site offers turf professionals in both the LCO and golf markets.

A large part of the strategy surrounding the development of GetGreenTurf.com has been around information, and the move towards fresh, current and user-contributed content. To that end, Grunder, a respected motivational speaker and green industry expert, will be contributing a new column to the site monthly in addition to the authenticated, user-populated content.

GetGreenTurf.com offers a number of great tips and techniques that can be applied across almost any green industry setting to help users grow their business, said Grunder Thats one of the big benefits of GetGreenTurf.com the site not only offers best practice ideas on how to grow green, but also how to earn it at the same time!

GetGreenTurf.com has been designed to allow peers to share best practices with peers through dynamic, user-authenticated forums. Once fully launched, the sites interactive functionality will facilitate the green industry community coming together online to share knowledge and grow.

Another unique feature of the site is the ability for the end-user to self-select their experience on GetGreenTurf.com, either from an LCO or a golf perspective. Once a path is selected, the end-user is presented with a series of columns and articles designed especially for their perspective, written by their peers, and allowed the opportunity to join discussion forums with the content most applicable to them.

So much of the professional turf industry is universal, said Grunder. But so much is not. There are specific differences in knowledge base, budgetary constraints, client perspective and on and on between the various facets of the green industry. GetGreenTurf.com is unique in that golf superintendents will find it as useful as LCOs, and vice versa.

In its launch phase, each user who signs up to participate on GetGreenTurf.com will be entered to win one of two Apple iPad

Kentico Recognizes the Child Cancer Foundation as the Site of the Year 2010

Nashua, NH (PRWEB) January 4, 2011

Provoke is delighted to be awarded the Kentico Site of the Year 2010 for the Child Cancer Foundation website. The Child Cancer Foundation is a fantastic New Zealand charity with an incredible team who are also proud of this accolade. The many staff at Provoke, who donated their own time to build this new site, are obviously really pleased with the end result. More importantly, the Foundation has seen a significant increase in online donations and publicity, which was the primary driver for re-building the site, said Ian Oliver, Marketing & Sales Manager at Provoke. The features of the Kentico platform allowed Provoke to deliver a great looking, feature-rich website quickly and easily. The support from Kentico has been awesome and were all looking forward to our next Kentico CMS project.

The success of the Child Cancer Foundation website demonstrates how non-profit organizations can benefit by having a creative and appealing internet presence. Now the personal stories of children living with cancer can be shared more easily, and potential volunteers can just go online to learn about the different ways that they can help out. We are happy that this collaboration between Provoke and the Child Cancer Foundation was built using the Kentico platform, said Eva Blazkova, Marketing Manager at Kentico. I am also proud to congratulate Provoke, along with the entire list of winners of each category, who proved their exceptional skills in delivering first-class websites.

Viajanet, an online travel portal which allows customers to book airline tickets, hotels, tourist packages, cruises, resorts, travel insurance and ticket sales, won in the category of Largest Site for 2010. It receives approximately 100 million page views per month. Alberto Galbeno from Travel Explorer, the partner in charge of the Viajanet site, said, In less than 1 year we reached more than 15 thousands sells per month, and became the third largest OTA site in Brazil. Now we are the fastest growing OTA site in the country. We chose Kentico because it meets all of our client's requirements, and it is 100% compatible with our system's architecture.

The growth of Viajanet has both impressed us and showed how scalable Kentico CMS is, said Petr Passinger, PR Manager at Kentico. Kentico always strives to be flexible, so knowing that Travel Explorer is pleased with the way our CMS has worked for their client makes us proud. We hope to continue pushing the limit on creative and technical web possibilities.

The Site of the Year contest seeks out the best Kentico CMS web site implementations. Its winners were selected from 10 different industries and 4 special categories. Winners in 9 of the industry specific categories and 1 special category (Best Design) were selected by online voting, while the rest of the special categories and the intranet category were chosen internally.

The Global Winner:

The Child Cancer Foundation (http://www.childcancer.org.nz), implemented by Provoke Solutions, received the most votes of all the competing projects and also won in the category of the Best Nonprofit Organization Site.

Winners of the Special Categories:

Largest Site: Viajanet (http://www.viajanet.com.br) was selected as the winner with more than 100 million page views per month. This was implemented by Travel Explorer, a Kentico Certified Partner.

Best Migration from other CMS: Strangford Lough and Lecale Partnership (http://www.strangfordlough.org) was chosen as the winner for its successful migration from ColdFusion to Kentico CMS. This was implemented by Biznet IIS, a Kentico Gold Partner.

Best Integration: Weather Channel (http://www.weatherchannel.com.au) won this category for its integration with 52 systems from 14 independent suppliers. This was implemented by Artis Group, a Kentico Certified Partner.

Best Graphic Design: Gresham Smith and Partners (http://showcase.gspnet.com) won in this category for its aesthetic use of Kentico CMS.
This was implemented by NetEffect Services, a Kentico Gold Partner.

Winners in Particular Industries:

E-commerce Site: Thackerays, (http://www.thackerays.co.uk)
Implemented by Data Graphic Services

Financial Services: AXA CZ, (http://www.axa.cz)
Implemented by Sprinx Systems

Education Site: Historically Black Colleges & Universities Online, (http://HBCUSonline.com)
Implemented by Imaginuity

Healthcare Site: Heska Website, (http://www.heska.com)
Implemented by Wakefly

Non-profit Site: The Child Cancer Foundation, (http://childcancer.org.nz)
Implemented by Provoke Solutions

Community Site: LoversCanBeChoosers, (http://www.loverscanbechoosers.com)
Implemented by Grovebanch

Travel Site: Official Site for Seattle Tourism, (http://www.visitseattle.org)
Implemented by Parts and Labor

Government and Municipal Site: Hillsborough Country Sheriffs Office, (http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us)
Implemented by Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office

Intranet Site: Positive Purchasing Academy,
Implemented by Tellonline

Other: ASICS Australia, (http://www.asics.com.au)
Implemented by IdeaWork

More information about the contest is available at: http://www.kentico.com/Company/Site-of-the-Year-2010-Contest.aspx


About Kentico CMS

Kentico CMS is an affordable Web content management solution providing a complete set of features for building websites, community sites, intranets and on-line stores on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It supports WYSIWYG editing, workflows, multiple languages, full-text search, SEO, on-line forms, image galleries, forums, groups, blogs, polls, media libraries and is shipped with 200+ configurable Web parts. Its currently used by more than 4,000 websites in 84 countries. The clients include Microsoft, McDonald's, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, Guinness, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others. Kentico CMS is available at http://www.kentico.com.

About Kentico Software

Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com) helps clients create professional websites, online stores, community sites and intranets using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. It's committed to deliver a full-featured, enterprise-class, stable and scalable Web Content Management solution on the Microsoft .NET platform. Founded in 2004, Kentico is headquartered in the Czech Republic and has a U.S. office in Nashua, NH. Since its inception, Kentico has continued to rapidly expand the Kentico CMS user base worldwide. Kentico Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2010, Kentico was named the fastest growing technology company in the Czech Republic in the Deloitte Technology FAST 50 awards.

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Click Consult Launch New Site Redesign and White Papers

(PRWEB) April 20, 2011

Click Consult has re-launched its web presence, redesigning the entire site to offer a more accessible user experience and introducing a brand new search marketing white papers section, with in-depth industry analysis produced in-house by Clicks internet marketing experts.

The new Click Consult website is cleaner, emphasises their fresh, original content in a clearer fashion, and is easier to navigate for users visiting the site. Strong, prominent call-to-action buttons allow users to find the services and information they are looking for quickly, and the site also promotes their new core services, which includes conversion rate optimisation (CRO), social media optimisation (SMO) and unique content creation.

Click Consult has also recently made a new addition to the site in the form of a Search Engine Marketing White Papers section, which are produced in-house with the aim of informing other marketers about industry topics and developments relevant to the online marketing community. Click Consult is planning on regularly updating their new white papers section with their findings, with the information gathered also helping them to better angle their clients campaigns for the future.

Redesigning the company website has been something weve been planning for a while, and were delighted with the end product from both an aesthetic and functionality point of view, commented Matt Bullas, Managing Director of Click Consult. Everything took place in-house, and our web development team has done an excellent job of getting both our new and existing services across to potential clients in an easy-to-understand, well-informed manner. Were also looking forward to publishing more exclusive white papers on-site, and we hope to impart our knowledge and other vital information on to the wider search industry as a result.

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Social Project Collaboration Site sprintr Launches To Simplify Employee Communications Across Enterprise Project Teams

Boston (PRWEB) May 31, 2011

Mendix, the leading agile application platform-as-a-service company, today launches sprintr, the first social collaboration space dedicated to assisting employees and project teams across the enterprise. Sprintr combines the best of social collaboration and project management tools to facilitate employee engagement and co-creation. Now in beta, project teams no longer have to cope with heavyweight, administrative project management tools.

Sprintr is simple and easy to use; signing-up takes less than 10-seconds using a corporate email address. After joining, users can create projects, send invitations to fellow stakeholders and start a conversation. Project pages are furnished with a name, description and a logo, and members can stay up-to-date, share and discuss thoughts on a project page.

Sprintr simplifies the collaboration process by breaking down traditional organizational boundaries, said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. In most organizations, project teams are geographically dispersed, resulting in inefficient communication, adding complexity to any project. Sprintr eliminates this problem and facilitates true business collaboration online.

Team members can also establish milestones within projects and use planning tools to manage them. As each milestone is added, completed or changed, team members are notified and kept up-to-date. Sprintr organizes thoughts and ideas so project teams dont have to.

Faster Feedback, Forever

With sprintr, teams can organize end-user feedback and incorporate it directly into their planning. This user-driven functionality enables teams to get instant feedback and course-correct quickly, resulting in better business practices and happier customers.

For software teams, a feedback widget containing a simple pop-up form can be easily embedded in any website or web-based application. This widget enables teams to get instant user feedback on any application. Stakeholders can then evaluate the feedback, via a built-in voting mechanism and either reject it, put it on hold or add it to the project backlog.

Sprintr can be accessed at, http://www.sprintr.com.

About Mendix

Mendix improves business agility by simplifying collaboration between business and IT.

Mendixs Agile Business Platform is a complete solution for agile application lifecycle management in the cloud - it rapidly develops, deploys and manages applications that smoothly integrate with existing systems. Mendix has over 20,000-users worldwide and has been recognized by leading analyst firm Gartner as a Cool Vendor. Mendix is a global company with offices in the US, UK, the Netherlands and South Africa. For more information please visit the website, http://www.mendix.com

Mendix, the Mendix logo and The Mendix Agile Business Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of Mendix, Inc. Other product and company names are property of their respective owners.

Tags: Agile Development, Agile Development Platform, Application Development Platform, Cloud, Platform-as-a-service, PaaS, Business Agility, Custom Application Development, Business Analyst, Enterprise Architect, IT Agility, Model Driven Development, SCRUM, Software Development Tools, Project Management, Collaboration, Social Collaboration, Project Management Portal.

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10th Annual WebAward Competition for Web Site Development Deadline for Entry Extended

West Simsbury, CT (PRWEB) June 1, 2006

The Web Marketing Association has announced that the deadline for entering its 10th annual WebAward Competition (http://www.webawards2006.org) has been extended until June 15th to allow final entries to be submitted and existing entries to be edited if needed. The WebAwards are the Internets premier award competition that judges website development against an ever increasing Internet standard of excellence and against peer sites within an industry.

A complete list of past winners and the entry form for companies who wish to compete for 2006 honors can be found at http://www.webawards2006.org.

Web sites are judged on design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, navigation and ease of use. Each WebAward entry is judged against other entries in its industry category and then against an overall standard of excellence. A Best of Industry WebAward, a handsome plaque with the image of the winning site embossed, will be given in each of the 96 industry categories, including financial services, medical, small business, travel, advertising, transportation, and government. New categories for this year include Healthcare Providers, Medical Equipment, Fashion and Technology.

The competitions highest honor, the 2006 WebAward Best of Show, will be given to the one site that the judges believe represents the pinnacle of outstanding achievement in Web development. Last years Best of Show winner was based IQ interactive (http://www.iqtv.com), for their outstanding work on "National Geographic Inside The Mafia" at URL http://www.insidethemafia.com.

The Web Marketing Association will also recognize the interactive agency winning the most awards in the competition with the Top Interactive Agency WebAward. The 2005 Top Agency award was presented Zugara (http://www.zugara.com), taking home 20 awards, more that any other organization in the history of the competition.

The 2006 WebAward Competition current sponsors include BURST! Media (http://www.burstmedia.com), SimpleFeed (http://www.simplefeed.com), Register.com (http://www.register.com), NewsUSA (http://www.newsusa.com), AdTools Inc(http://www.adtoolsinc.com., Small Army (http://www.smallarmy.net), Perseus Development Corp (http://www.perseus.com) and PRWeb (http://www.prweb.com). Media Sponsors include Website Services Magazine (http://www.websiteservices.com), AdRants (http://www.adrants), MarketingVox (http://www.marketingvox.com), MediaPost (http://www.wediapost.com), eComXpo (http://www.ecomxpo.com), Ad:Tech (http://www.ad-tech.com) and Macworld (http://www.macworldexpo.com). The Web Marketing Association thanks all of its sponsors for helping to make this annual competition possible.

About the Web Marketing Association

The Web Marketing Association is working to create a high standard of excellence for Web site development and marketing on the Internet. Staffed by volunteers, it is made up of Internet marketing, advertising, PR and design professionals who share an interest in improving the quality of Website development and marketing on the Internet. Since 1997, the Web Marketing Associations annual WebAward Competition has been helping interactive professionals promote themselves, their companies, and their best work to the outside world. Now in its ninth year, the WebAward Competition has become the premier award event for Web developers and marketers worldwide.

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